Training Translators for Video Game Localization: In Search of a Pedagogical Approach

Formando tradutores para a localização de jogos eletrônicos: em busca de uma abordagem pedagógica

ABSTRACT

Based on the assumption that video game localization inevitably has levels of collaboration among their agents, forming a collaborative continuum that involves localization managers, translators, localization coordinators, and linguistic testers, who directly or indirectly influence the game to be localized, game localization teaching can also adopt a collaborative approach, dynamically promoting experience exchanges between translation teachers and students, and other collaborators. Accordingly, this paper, conceived as a didactic proposal of qualitative and naturalistic bias (GILE, 2009; CHESTERMAN; WILLIAMS, 2002), describes possibilities for incorporating video game localization in translation teaching using a collaborative pedagogical approach (KIRALY, 2000).

KEYWORDS:
translation teaching; collaborative pedagogy; video game translation and localization; open source tools; free translation memory systems